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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-11-17
CLARENCE JOTTINGS.

Delightful days-perfect nights,
Hurrah for victorious democracy!
Not much news TO record this week.
Mr. J. Prices new residence is about
completed.
Mr.. Chas. Archer las put up Il new
wind mill.
Mr L. Jurgensen WAS out from ct.
Bend last week.
The numerous fruit tree men are
NOW making their fall deliveries.
Our farmers are beginning to say
that we need little rain.
Mr.. - Wilkinson has accepted
position from leading Chicago whole
sale grocery house.
Mr.. j. Tammin, of Nebraska, recent
ly arrived here, and viii make this
township his home.
Mr.. Spurgeon and family embarked
in prairie schooners recently and their
destination viii be an Iowa port.
Miss Marry a. Webster came out
from Great Bend last Thursday and is
the guest OF c. G. Reader.
Mr.. Albert Ehrensperger who made
his home in Clarence last spring, was
calling on old acquaintances last week.
Mr.. L. Losthrow is up from No
Man 's-Land, on visit. He IS very
much pleased with the country and will
return IN d few days.
SIr. u. Bird has a fine new gun, and
the geese. ducks and long cared jacks |
would respectfully caution: There is
danger over there now.
\ rather small democratic vote was
polled here on the Sth. partly owing
to the threatening aspect of the wealth
er, and partly because the democrats
We're So confident of success that they
thought it unnecessary TO go 10 No l..
The large majorities win be there wheo
needed however.
RUcKEYEa-.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-11-17

IT SHOULD not be a source of shame
to own that you have been in the wrong.
By doing so you admit that you are
wiser to-day than you were yesterday.
Newspaper men are every day tried in
the court Of public opinion, and many
times are asked to ''take back some
thing which has been said OF written
This they seldom-and never should
do-until they are satisfied in their
own minds that they were in the wrong
at first, and then retraction should be
made with feeling that they are do
ing justice. and not an act of cow
ardice
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-11-17
Sugar Experiments.

There is likelihood that the duty on
sugar will be substantially reduced this
swinter, and this announcement has
given fresh interests to the efforts to
encourage the native production of
that article of food. For several years
The government has been making ex-
periments in new processes, but these
have not realized expectation. The
latest experiments, made at the diff
fusion works at Fort Scott, Kansas,
have been very successful. These
demonstrate that sugar can be made
prOtitably from sorghum cane. The
average product from ton of cane is
about ITO pounds first sugar, twenty
pounds of seconds, and ten gallons of
syrnp. This average has been kept up
for weeks, and the planters are salts
fed that they can make the raising of
cane and manufacture of sugar and
syrup profitable. 1t has been asserted
that the experiments made by-private
individuals have been more successful
than those made by the government be-
cause the government officer who is
charged with the matter is incompetent
and has wasted the large sums of
money appropriated by Congress. If
such charges are well founded, they
should be promptly investigated, be-
cause the question is one of national
Importance. Our present importation
of sugar amounts annually to over
eighty million dollars. If the sacch-
arine matter in yaripua plants raised
in this country can be extracted with
profit, the agricultural resources will
be greatly increased. In California
large quantities of sugar are being
made from the sugar beet, and it is
equal to any that is imported. Plant
ers are making experiments in the
Southern States. and fEom present in
dioations it looks as If in rev years
tie United States will be exporting
instead of importing sugar and syrnp.
-DereOrest'S Monthly.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-11-17
NUMBER 33.
II. E. Hull, of Hutchinson, is in
the city.

II. E. Hull, of Hutchinson, is in
the city.
a five year old child of w. j. Nc
Greevy, who resides near Dundee.
died in Ohio last week of diphtheria.
Miss Ella Swigert, who has been
visiting her aunt, Mrs. John Typer,
this summer, left for her home in
Carthage, Ills.
The electric light company, are
putting in different shaped glass globes
which they claim will give better
light than the others.
Mrs. o. M. Mcconnell, of Topeka,
is visiting Mrs. D. n. Heizer.
The Great Bend Orchestra now one
of the best in the state, will furnish
the principal part of the music for the
evening sessions of the Central Kan
sas Teachers Association. Miss Ida
Norton will favor the Association
with one or two solos.
There are in this world few smart
Alecs, who for minutes cunningness
or cussed devilishness may cause pain
and injury TO others for weeks and
months. Last night some one removed
plank from the side walk which
covered the water works trench in
front of Richard Pleger's residence. If
any one had fallen through it might
have been a serious matter for the fell
low.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-11-17
How It is Done.

y new method of making sorghum is
in this wise: The cane is chopped up
and deposited i'll large tanks; at the
Parkinson works at Fort Scott there
are ten of these tanks. When these
tanks are filed, clear, cold water is
forced through them. First through
tank No. 1, then through No. ,, then
through tank No. 3, and SO OH until it
passes through the last tank. This
water impregnated With the sugar
matter from the cane. is then boiled by
passing over immense iron plates, Un-
der these iron plates pass coils of steam
pipes. This boiling and passing pro-
cess results in condensation. Then the
syrup substance is forced into a great
cylinder which revolyes at fearful
rate of speed; here the syrup encounters
that centrifugal force, which naturally
forces the syrup to the outside while
the sugar gTanules form in the center.
a linen cloth at the end of the cylinder
holds the sugar in, while the syrup or
molasses drains through the cloth into
a receptacle placed to receive it, When
the sugar is separated from the syrup
the cylinder is stopped and the sugar
removed, which yields about 115
pounds to the cylinder.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-11-17
Kansas Patents.

S. A. Haseltine g. Bro, Patent
Solicitors, Springfield, Missouri, send
us the following list of patents which
were issued to citizens of Kansas
during the past week: Archer, VIII
liam r., Green, Sulky-harrow.
Hale, Charles w, Eureka, Wrench.
Hopkins, Lafayette B., Council
Grove, Bed-slat fastener. Shay, Az
70 S., Conway, Cane or corn harvest
er.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-11-17

EVERY human soul reaches toward
the light in the most direct path open
to it, and will correct it's own errors as
soon as it develops far enough. There
is no use trying TO force maturity.
Teachers who trouble children beyond
all reason, and worry over their mis-
takes, are fumbling at the roots of
young plants that will grow if they are
let alOne.-SchOOl Journal.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-11-17

The dispatches indicate that the
Democrats have made large gains gen.
orally throughout the United States.
If later returns confirm the earlier dis
patches ws may soon expect to seq
Kansas Democratic State, as the
gains have been general, and i'll many
places the Democratic vote was much
larger than the most sanguine friends
of the party expected.-La Crosse
Democrat.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-11-17

No FINER winter weather could
possibly be found on tins round world
of ours than that which We are here
experiencing. Out door work OF all
kinds is being pushed right along as
though it was midsummer, and our
town is growing right along with un-
ceasing energy. Strangers who come
here from the east who have heard u
report that Kansas crops were failure
the past season, are surprised when
they witness the amount of building
that is being done, amount of good
hard cash that is being paid out daily
for improvements of all kinds, and the
quality of buildings that are being
built. Showing conclusiveiy that the
men who are thus eXpending their
money are men who have sufficient
faith in their country and their town
to believe that I. small failure in the
corn and wheat crop cannot and will
not bankrupt the community.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-11-17

The indications are now that at tho
next republican convention in this
county candidates will not be so nu-
merous as in the past. For two years
the republicans under the leadership of
Dick Ewalt have met with defeat, and
and wishes away down III his heart that
some one besides himself was chairman
of the republican county central COM
mittee. Then the break III ranks
caused by the nomination of county
treasurer is very serious and it will be
no small task to repair it. The poor
old Tribune, who has been fostering the
idea that it carried the balance of pow
er on its crow-bait like back, and who
has, accidentally been supporting the
winning tickets for two years: is now
almost heart-broken over the defeat of
its treasured pet and the showing up OF
its political prestige and progn0stica.
tions. Ruck. is now casting fnrtive
glances toward the representative cali
didaey. and Chap, not over his last
years defeat and political downfall has
''got it in' for him should he attempt
to come out. The candidate who can
heal this breach will have TO be a
stronger man than the republican party
put in the field this fall, but as they
claim they never had stronger ticket
this is impossible.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-11-17
A Strange Creature.

The wild man. has been creating
considerable excitement in and around
Raleigh, but there is now to be seen at
the Pine Knot office a creature that far
surpasses him in strangeness. This an
imal is appropriately called 'The-man-
who-liTes-on-air." 1t is believed by
some that he was the editor of a coun-
try paper which everybody liked, but
nobody paid for until he got ready
(some haven't got ready yeti, and that
his remarkable condition is the result
of an attempt to support life on an ex-
elusive diet of kind words. The eXhi-
bition is open from a. m. to 6 p. m,
every day except Sunday. Come early,
as the phenomenon shows signs of
weakness and is not expected to live
much longer.-Pine Knot.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-11-17

\ NEW fraud of fearful consequence
has been discovered in connection with
the loss of the steamer Vernon on Lake
Michigan, which went down with all on
board, only one survivor having turned
up. The life of preservers that have
been picked up since the foundering of
the ship and which were evidently used
by the drowning passengers and crew
were stuffed with grass instead of cork,
and as soon as the water penetrated
them instead of buOying up the victims
they weighed them down and assisted
in drowning them. Some of them, it is
found, were cut loose from the wearers
in order to give them little longer
lease of life in the water. The makers
of those frauds ought to go up with the
anarchists ChieftaiR:
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-11-17

THERE is not woolen mill i'll Kan
sas says the Junction City Union, worthy
of the name; and yet the wool clip of
this state is more than double the aver
age of the six New England States,
which have 7O4 woolen mills, an aver
age of 142 mills to the state.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-11-17

A RECENT decision of the supreme
court has affirmed the decision of
Judge Clark, in the district court last
winter, and tiins the county seat of
Pratt county is permanently located at
Iuka. This will probably end the
bitter county seat war which has been
waged between Pratt Center and Iuka
for the Last three years.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-11-17

DISEASE is prevalent i'll many cities
along the Ohio valley, and is attributed
to the use of the sewage saturated river
water for drinking purposes. Exten-
sive prospecting for an underground
supply is being carried OH in the large
places.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-11-17

THE vote on county officers this year
has been pretty well brought out, and
in the cities which are making any pre-
tense to be cities of any moment the
vote cast will be a pretty good basis
from which to figure the actual popula=
ton. Following is the vote of few of
tha cities in the Arkansas VALLEY.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-11-17

The Rush county election took the
shape of contest between the two
towns, Walnut City and Lacrosse, and
the Farmers Ticket was the win
ming one, it being the ticket favoring
Lacrosse for county seat.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-11-17

STEAM has been applied to the
bicycle. a small boiler, the fuel for
which is supplied by kerosene, is placed
beneath the seat of the machine, and
the rider is propelled rapidly and
smoothly with no exertion on his own
part.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-11-17

II would appear that the Great Bend
Tribune is no good as prognosticator.
Townsley always fiops at the wrong
time. If he could keep on one side Of
the fence long enough he might have
some use for his old rusty rooster
PaWnee Rock Leader.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-11-17

Now that the anarchists have paid
the extreme penalty of the law, the
people will look forward to the day
when Maxwell, who murdered Preller
at st. Louis, shuff1es off his mortal coil
in the same manner. So the world
moves.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-11-17

We acknowledge the receipt of a
complimentary ticket to the Thanks
giving ball TO be held in. the opera
hall at Great Bind. Nov. 24th,
under the auspices II the Great Bend
Nose company A. We shall surely
be there.-Seward Independent.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-11-17

IN THE midst of the excitement over
election returns don't forget that the
Great Bend gas and fuel company are
going right ahead with their prepara-
tions for boring.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-11-17

ARIZONA comes to the front with a
buried city, in which 200 skeletons
have already been unearthed.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-11-17

IT'S sweet to sup the savory soup,
and sooth your inward system; but sad
to dive for the oysters rare, and find
that you have missed 'em.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-11-17

A YOUNG man doesn't weigh any
more than usual when he has on his
silk hat, and probably he doesn't look
any larger to strangers, but he always
feels his responsibility nevertheless.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-11-17

Away with ambition-a dream-a
shadow that fades with the light; or a
bubble that, borne OH the stream, lives
a moment, then bursts from the sight. ="
Sung by the republican candidates as
they go marching on.'
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-11-17

THE MAN who sits down and waits
to be appreciated will find himself
among uncalled for baggage after the
limited express has gone by.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-11-17

Now Is the proper time to make a
careful examination of your fiues and
stove pipes. The mayor will instruct
the city marshall and assistant to eX-
anime the fiues about the city, and
they should see that an necessary pre-
cautions are taken to prevent an out
break of fire.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-11-17

''AsK and ye shall receive, knock and
it shall opened unto you," seems to be
the principle upon which Gov. Oglesby
has acted in the anarchists cases.
Sehwab and Fielden knocked at the
penitentiary door, az it were. and it
was opened to othem.-LeGuenacogf San.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-11-17
John Tulles is in the city.
Mrs. Joe Troillet is quite sick.

| IS. ooS 1IoiIIeL Is quite oIck
Our farmers are now wishing for a
little rain.
Capt. Hannum returned to Hutch
inson Sunday.
The event of the season. ''Ciouds," :"
at the opera house, Nov. 28th.
Samuel Wollman, of Rush Center,
is in the city visiting G. Samuels.
There will be a wedding in the
west enc, on, or about the 24th inst.
Where on the face of the earth can
fairer weather than this be experience
ed.
NJ. NJ. Meek, is acting as night
watch in the place of night watch
Frey.
The Famous has removed the huge
canvass sign which hung in front of
the store.
Mrs. Robert Wilkerson is very i'll
at the residence of her father, Mr..
Vincent.
81. L. Drake, train master on the
Santa Fe, passed through the city this
morning.
James Chaddick came up from
Larned Saturday evening on visit
to friends.
George Spencer bought the base
ball association fence Saturday after
noon for $4,000.
Large numbers of people are
thronging the county treasurer's Office,
paying their taxes.
Lewis Bro. are making some OUT
door views at Pawnee Rock and
vicinity. One of them left for the
Rock this morning.
Mr.. Sowle, of the Fair Associa-
tion, is delivering the diplomas
awarded at the county fair. They are
NCl uduuSOIHS-
Saturday was a big day in trade for
our merchants. A large crowd of
people was in the city and plenty of
money changed hands.
Chas. Beye, Fred Zutavern, Fred
Miller and d. NJ. Lazarus drove to
Ellinwood Sunday behind Harry
Kline's white horses.
Miss May Miller, of Rush county,
who has been visiting with the family
of Mr.. A. l.. Wh1tcomb, left for her
home Sunday morning.
Secure your seats for the coming
lecture course. Judge Tourgee and
Geo. c. Min are men you will not
often have a chance to hear,
DIR. Barrett, of Rush Center, is in
the city visiting his family who are
residing here in order that his child
rem can attend our schools.
On Saturdav last tho county cons
missioners let the contract for build
ing small frame residence on the
county farm. Spencers are the con-
tractors.
l.. &. Brown, who has been clerk
ing for the Famous for some months,
resigned his position and left for his
home in Springfield, Ills, Sunday
morning.
Elder j. ~ Hudson, Of Burling-
ton. will preach in the court house,
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and
Saturday evenings. Also Sunday
morning aud evening at the usual
hours.
In the northeast part Of the county
the other day party were in pursuit
of a wolf ON horseback following the
hounds, when Chas. Michaels horse
stumbled into buffalo wallow, throw.
ing him to the ground and injuring
him severely.
And now the honest farmer packs
His apples up for town;
This is the top row of his sacks
10000 10000
And this is lower down
oooooo o 100000
A reporter made a trip into Clar-
ence township Sunday and notices
that rain is badly needed. Some
wheat looking quite tired; in spots
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-11-17

THE prohibition amendment in Ore
gon was defeated by about 10000.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-11-17

Restaurant and Confectionery, day board
aud lodging. Fine cigars and tobacco, can
dies, etc., always on hand. All kinds OF
drinks in their season. Oysters in every
style.
Forest Avenue. nEst door west of the Post
once.
Daily Republican., 1887-11-02
THIRD EDITION.
KG. E. yas,ts.

A seriss of official Waits are being
made TO the various castles In this juris.
diction by Gtand Chlef Thompson and
the other efficers Of the Grand Castle
X. G. K.
Ga Friday night they visited Hsr.
mouy Castle, No. 9. OF New Castle.
Last night they visitcl Brandy wine
Castle, No. IL, of this oity. OEher ap.
pointrosuis are announced rs follows:
November 2 Bt. John, No. 4; Novsm Der
Philadelphia. No 9; November z,
Apollo, No. 2; November 9, Crusaders,
No } Novem Ter IL, St. Georges No. 3;
Noveis ber IS, Cyrus, No. !; Hovember
II, Warwict, No 6; Novenb Der 10. Dia'
mond State, No. 10.
At various points throughout the
State new castles are In process OF for.
NATION. TIE grand chief and other
grand officers will drive 20 Delaware
City to organize Castls No. IL Brandy
wine Castle had Is applications fer
memba-hip on Monday evening.
Apollo Castle, No. 2, Of this city, will
receive o fraterusl visit from Apollo
Castle, No. 3, of Philadelphia, on next
Monday evening. Delaware Com man
derry, which 10 composed OF Sir Knights
of oil castles except St. Georges and
Cyrus, which have their own commsn.
deries, will meet In the room Of the
Uniform Rank, K. Of P, In the Smith
Building, for drill tomorrow evening
On Thursday evening, November "a,
1887, it viii give package party and
mum soctable In Knights Of the Golden
Eagle Hoil, Fifth and French siree.s,
on which occasion Vice Chief Hurlock,
of Apollo, will figure as chief vocalist.
Daily Republican., 1887-11-02
Tho OnIx aurxixor.

A despatch from Sturgeon Bay, Wis.
consin, says the schooner Pomeroy
passed through the bay yesterday, hav.
Ing On board Alfred Stone, of Chicago
one OF the crew aud the only known
turvlvor OF these on board the propelle,
Vernon, which was wrecked on Lake
Michigan on last Friday night. He
hai been in the water ON o raft sixty
hours, exposed TO a bitter, piercing
wind, with notain I 10 eat.
He said no was avab ened In the m ID
die OF the night by the cries of the pas
sengers and crew that the vessel was
sinkipg. He sprsng out of the window
and slighted Cd lfo raft with six
other persons. II eeemed only u mo.
n nsnt before the vessel went down. He
thought the number Of pereons on
boari could not have been far from
fity.
Two vessels parsed near them OF Sat.
urday, but made no effort to rench
them. He did rot see any others from
The snuEsn steamer, ard don't believe
suy others survived. The vessel went
down 30 suddenly that the crew hadn'i
time 20 man the boat1.
Daily Republican., 1887-11-02
Good News from FrederIc.,


L letter received in this oity from
rrederios, Del, dated November lst
1887, says:
Under the spirited gospel preaching
(not ssnsstional) and judioious admin.
istrattou of our pastnr, the Rev. T. h.
Haynes, this place has been wonder
fully improved. He has received up to
the present time about 40 proba tioners
into full mem sersbip. and the bepevo-
lent collections 40 fer as taken are co to
100 per cent over last year; the hnAnces
are In good shape; four fiiths Of the pre-
siding elders salary was paid him ty
the middle of the year, and the presid.
ing elder has remarked that IN develop.
ment OF spiri,usl life and power Fred.
erica was far ahead OF any place In the
district
The church and parsonage property
have also been considerably improved.
All these results aud others are In O
great measure the outgrowth OF an ear
nest pastoral attert ton to the che work
of saving souls. Brother Haynes gives
himself entirely to his work. He v.sits
from house TO house literally, aud Is sll
the time looking nfter the welfare oi
the church and people. We have
however, met with heavy losses lately
IN the death of quite q mum Der of mem
hers OF the church Snd official board
This certainly shows Mr.. Haynes 10 b,
q model pastor.
Daily Republican., 1887-11-02
Coming Attractions.

Tomorrow night the celebrated Il
tionSl actress Miss Ada Cray, wAo
peared in this city last season ID q
Iron Ring" will con- meuce N elii
ment Of three nights, with main
Friday and Saturday siterrocus 81
Academy Of Music, coDmenc.l2 v
"E,st Lynn"
Next Monday and Tuesday 1.l
the beautiful play entitled "Tse u
tyrs" will be given for the ersI :.ns
this city ut the Opera House bT 8 d
class company.
On ThurxdAy night the Do - '
appear in their latest comicsl sensa'f
"U Upside Down."